--- layout: markdown_page title: "GitLab Top Team Member" --- Note: Top team member awards as of 2018 are no longer in practice. ## Top Team Member A Top Team Member (T2M) exemplifies the [GitLab Values](/handbook/values/) beyond of the [team of people](/company/team/structure/) they directly work with. You can only be nominated by a manager who you don't report to because this award recognizes cross-functional collaboration. ### July 2017 Top Team Member Brian Neel, Security Lead, is the July 2017 Top Team Member embodying collaboration! Nomination reasons for how Brian demonstrated Collaboration: * He has been instrumental in improving our logging so that we can better keep an eye on our infrastructure. * He always helps with outages when possible * His help with planning and creating the VPN allowed us to greatly increase our security of our infrastructure. * He helped with planning of our infrastructure's network and the associated improvements in security. * He is always willing to jump in to help whoever possible, even if it means he'll be operating outside his comfort zone. * He has been a instrumental in several large deals from a Security standpoint. Brian is very responsive to email requests from Account Execs and makes himself available to join conference calls with prospective customers. ### August 2017 Top Team Member Victor Lopez, Senior Production Engineer, is the August 2017 Top Team Member embodying results! Nomination reasons for how Victor demonstrated Results: * Work on GitLab logging infrastructure. Having a solid logging platform enables us to use Gitlab.com's runtime data to make decisions around benchmarking, performance analysis, debugging, root cause analyses, support, and more. * Victor has enthusiastically picked up this task and is successfully wrangling our logging infrastructure back into shape. ### September 2017 Top Team Member Brittany Rohde People Operations Specialist, is the September 2017 Top Team Member embodying efficiency! Nomination reasons for how Brittany demonstrated Efficiency: * Being respectful of other's time making sure her communication was short and sweet * Manager of one having a clear overview / todo list of what needed to be done * Move fast by shipping the minimum viable change making sure decisions were made instead of delayed to not pile on work for later. ### October 2017 Top Team Member Victor Wu, Product Manager Discussion, is the October 2017 Top Team Member embodying diversity! * Victor has gone above and beyond in leading a podcast focused on Diversity and has shown a strong interest and willingness to help GitLab be an inclusive workplace. https://stemdiversitypodcast.com/ ### November 2017 Top Team Member Grzegorz Bizon, Senior Developer, is the November 2017 Top Team Member embodying the GitLab Values! Nomination reasons for how Grzegorz demonstrated GitLab's values: * Help setting up the Geo GitLab QA testing framework, displaying the values of Collaboration and Results * The Geo team now has a suite of QA specs that run nightly, and can be run whenever a new Omnibus package is generated. This has already helped us to catch multiple regressions before they reached customers. * The Geo team also has a list of scenarios to implement in the future, building on top of his excellent work: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-qa/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name. ### December 2017 Top Team Member Nadia Vatalidis, Recruiter, is the December 2017 Top Team Member embodying the GitLab Values! Nomination reasons for how Nadia demonstrated GitLab's values: * The energy and professionalism that Nadia brings to recruiting new talent to the company is amazing. As a first point of contact with the company for many potential recruits, she's an excellent ambassador for GitLab and personifies of our company values, particularly results and efficiency. ### January 2018 Top Team Member Brendan O'Leary, Professional Services Engineer, is the January 2018 Top Team Member embodying the GitLab Values! Nomination reasons for how Brendan demonstrated GitLab's values: * Collaboration and Iteration: Whether Brendan is developing content for sales and marketing, participating in the Marketing Hack Day, or recording a product demo, he is easy to collaborate with, and he keeps moving forward with discrete, concise improvements. * Marketing hack day examples: - [gitlab-com/marketing-hack-day#60](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/marketing-hack-day/issues/60) - [gitlab-com/marketing-hack-day#21](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/marketing-hack-day/issues/21) - [gitlab-com/marketing-hack-day#19](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/marketing-hack-day/issues/19) * Collaborating on improving [how our customers get educational content](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/marketing/issues/1943). ### February 2018 Top Team Member Andreas Brandl, Senior Database Engineer, is the February 2018 Top Team Member embodying the GitLab Values! Nomination reasons for how Andreas demonstrated GitLab's values: * Andreas has been very productive, incredibly helpful, manages his time/work very effectively, actively communicates the status of things, and engages with other teams to resolve issues; all that in his first month. * Some examples of his work: - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/17327 - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/17454 - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/17476 - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/16976